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Definition of inauspicious:

  • (adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | unfortunate, unlucky, unfavorable
  • (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare;
  • (adjective) presaging ill fortune;

Sentence Examples:

"Inauspicious stars."

Inauspicious date!

"Inauspicious love."

Slope's inauspicious letter.

Inauspicious days arrive.

Our beginning was inauspicious.

Auspicious and inauspicious dreams.

It was an inauspicious reunion.

The start was inauspicious.

The moment was inauspicious.

It was an inauspicious moment.

It was an inauspicious time.

Hard elements of inauspicious war!

This was an inauspicious beginning.

More inauspicious unions were never contracted.

Thus ended this inauspicious day.

Some of them are auspicious and some inauspicious.

Nothing could have been more inauspicious or unlucky.

Both girls started at the inauspicious interruption.

The Countess had come at an inauspicious time.

Everything looks inauspicious to the eye of fear.

The memorable morning arrived with inauspicious rain.

The marriage took place under very inauspicious circumstances.

If the moment is inauspicious I will call again.

Did such a virtuous person die an inauspicious death?

He could not have chosen a more inauspicious moment.

Thus ended the first inauspicious settlement of Weymouth.

The ground was ill-chosen and the occasion inauspicious.

Surely the times must have seemed to him inauspicious.

Our first entrance on them has been peculiarly inauspicious.

My father at least escaped such an inauspicious death.

What was ever more inauspicious than my coming here?

It was an inauspicious beginning to a very doubtful adventure.

I could not have chosen a more inauspicious time to speak.

The greatest consternation was occasioned by this inauspicious occurrence.

Your inauspicious presence here has caused the water to become muddy.

They could not possibly have come at a more inauspicious moment.

At that inauspicious moment a spark fell from the pipe!

It proved to be a very inauspicious time for such a negotiation.

In spite of its inauspicious beginning, we spent an enjoyable afternoon.

Hence, I was induced to sail when appearances were very inauspicious.

The moment was inauspicious for the entrance of Harriet Penny.

Don Henrique ascended the throne under circumstances the most inauspicious.

Out of such inauspicious surroundings, he slowly and painfully lifted himself.

Nor, in circumstances so inauspicious, did she arrive as a solitary victim.

The time was inauspicious for one making the navy his profession.

Despite these inauspicious surroundings these early pioneers were contented and happy.

Into this inauspicious apartment was I conducted by my strange companions.

At that inauspicious moment James and Philip walked into the room.

Ted, feeling he had made rather an inauspicious beginning, suddenly became lamb-like.

Could a man desire three more inauspicious signs for a night's travel?

Know again that Amrita is highly auspicious, and that Poison is highly inauspicious.

Such being the inauspicious indications seen, a great danger is at hand.

Inauspicious days arrive, and certainly misfortune does not seem to spare them.

The Prince saw the light at a moment inauspicious for his dynasty.

The crossing of their path by the latter is considered peculiarly inauspicious.

He looked across the gentle slope at the angle of the inauspicious room.

The combat debut of the Marine medium tanks, however, was inauspicious on D-Day.

Now and then the gusts ceased, and there was an inauspicious calm.

The fatal day came, and with its inauspicious dawn legal life ceased.

In spite of this inauspicious beginning, she was presently singing over her work.

Only forty years have passed since the telephone made such an inauspicious beginning.

Pitt's situation, however inauspicious for his real being, was favorable to his fame.

I need hardly add that under these inauspicious circumstances they began to love.

The early hour is selected, to avoid the chance of coming across inauspicious objects.

Governor Glen took this inauspicious moment to hold high festival with the Cherokees.

The inauspicious rumor was communicated to him in writing by Sir John Johnson.

Such was the inauspicious manner in which Pitt entered on his second administration.

Despite the liquor in his brain, he felt the inauspicious chance of the meeting.

He began to reflect upon the events that had passed; they were numerous and inauspicious.

It was an inauspicious beginning to a married life which would end who knew how?

His first meeting with Rose Maitland could not have been more inauspicious than it was.

She entered the family at a most inauspicious moment, two days after this accident.

July 12th, after so inauspicious a beginning, the fleet was again on its way northward.

The majority of one does not appear to me, as it does to you, by any means inauspicious.

This confession was thought inauspicious for the doctor's hopes, but it did not prove so.

The day was wet and stormy, and the opening of the campaign was most inauspicious.